Scroll to content twitter translate welcome house-points email noticeboard our-trust close calendar-twitter latest-news search quick-link calendar map arrow-left attendance arrow-right awards burger-nav contact
Can't find what you're looking for?
Translate / Traduire / Übersetzen / Tłumaczyć / Išversti / Tulkot / Traducir

Website Menu

Back
  • Home
  • About Our School
    • Headteacher's welcome
    • Our Ethos, Values and Rules
    • Our School Day
    • Meet Our Staff
    • Governing Body
    • Safeguarding
      • Useful Websites
      • Online Safety
    • Term Dates
    • Contact Us
  • Key Information
    • Admission Arrangements
    • After School Clubs
    • Attendance
    • Cost of living help information
      • Meal ideas
    • Data Protection Information
    • Financial Information
    • Fundraising
    • Mental Health and Wellbeing
    • OFSTED
    • ParentPay
    • Parents Teachers and Friends Association (PTFA)
    • Performance Information
    • Policies
    • Pupil Premium
    • School Meals
    • SEND Information Report
    • Sports Premium
    • Uniform
  • Curriculum
    • Early Years Foundation Stage
    • Curriculum
      • English
        • Speaking and Listening
        • Phonics
        • Reading
          • Events & News
          • Books for EYFS/KS1
          • Books for KS2
          • Parent Page
            • Ideas for Reading at Home
            • Inference Skills
            • Diverse Voices
            • Boys' Reading
          • Droylsden Library
          • Staff Read Aloud
          • Poems to Perform
          • Love to Listen
        • Writing
      • Mathematics
      • Science
      • Art and design
      • Computing
      • Design and technology
      • Geography
      • History
      • Languages
      • Music
      • PE
      • PSHE
      • Religious education
    • British Values
  • Our Classes
    • Year Group Pages
      • Nursery
      • Reception
      • Year 1
      • Year 2
      • Year 3
      • Year 4
      • Year 5
      • Year 6
    • Eco Council
    • Wellbeing Champions
    • School Choir
    • Prefects
  • EYFS
    • EYFS Curriculum
    • New starters to Nursery 2024
    • New starters to Reception 2024
  • Log in
Fairfield Road Primary School home page

Fairfield Road Primary School

'Together Everyone Achieves More'

Related

  • Early Years Foundation Stage
  • Curriculum
  • British Values

Poems to Perform

  • Home
  • Curriculum
  • Curriculum
  • English
  • Reading
  • Poems to Perform

 

Below are some brilliant videos of famous children's poets reading their work aloud. There is also a selection of poems for you to try and read aloud and perform for your friends and family. Poetry isn't written to sit on the page, but to be acted on the stage!

Why not explore the Children's Poetry Archive? Here you can listen to poems, read poems, watch interviews with poets and learn so much more!

  • Poetry for children under 5!
  • Poetry for 5-7 year olds!
  • Poetry for 7-9 year olds!
  • Poetry for 9-11 year olds!

      

Watch poets recite their work for your enjoyment and entertainment below...

  • Cards Dealt by Joseph Coelho Listen to the poet read his work. Do you like the poem and can you give your opinions?
  • Flames by Rachel Rooney
  • Haircut Rap by Valerie Bloom Listen to how Valerie uses rapid pace, rhyme and rhythm to bring her funny poem to life!
  • Please Mrs Butler! by Allan Ahlberg Mr McCabe's favourite children's writer reads Please Mrs Butler
  • Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl More intended for the KS2 listener-this poem shows the darker side of traditional stories!
  • Wipwapwop by Jennifer Watson

 

 

Below: To celebrate International Women's Day, we created our very own Book of Wonderful Women.

Here are the pages all about amazing Mancunian... Emmeline Pankhurst!

 

  • Sitemap
    • Accessibility Statement
    • Cookie Information
    • Website Policy
  • Log in
  • All website content © Fairfield Road Primary School
  • Website design by Primarysite

Cookies

Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.

Our cookies ensure you get the best experience on our website.

Please make your choice!

Cookies

Some cookies are necessary in order to make this website function correctly. These are set by default and whilst you can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, some functionality such as being able to log in to the website will not work if you do this. The necessary cookies set on this website are as follows:

Website CMS

A 'sessionid' token is required for logging in to the website and a 'crfstoken' token is used to prevent cross site request forgery.
An 'alertDismissed' token is used to prevent certain alerts from re-appearing if they have been dismissed.
An 'awsUploads' object is used to facilitate file uploads.

Matomo

We use Matomo cookies to improve the website performance by capturing information such as browser and device types. The data from this cookie is anonymised.

reCaptcha

Cookies are used to help distinguish between humans and bots on contact forms on this website.

Cookie notice

A cookie is used to store your cookie preferences for this website.

Cookies that are not necessary to make the website work, but which enable additional functionality, can also be set. By default these cookies are disabled, but you can choose to enable them below: